Practice areas

Aviation & Transport

Carter Newell Lawyers is an award winning specialist law firm providing legal advice to Australian and international corporate clients.

Our Aviation & Transport team, led by Paul Hopkins, Senior Partner and Partners Glenn Biggs and Bronwyn Clarkson provides seamless legal advice to land and air carriage operators – a unique service provision within the Australian market.

Our experience in aviation and transport covers the full transactional and adversarial spectrum which enables us to provide a highly specialised offering capable of responding to the needs of the aviation and transport industries as a whole.

Our team has extensive experience in providing commercial, contract and transactional advice direct to the aviation and wider heavy haulage and transport industries, together with a recognised capacity for the successful management of major transport litigation and complex multi-jurisdictional claims for aviation operators, logistics and heavy transport companies, airports, aviation support services and their insurers. We act for operators and insurers alike across Australia’s multi-billion dollar logistics and air operations businesses, with a diverse range of clients including trucking and heavy machinery operators, rental and hire companies, local and international aviation, hull, heavy fleet and liability insurers, aircraft, machinery and equipment manufacturers, owners and operators, financiers and lessors, airports, and aviation and vehicle support service companies.